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Jessica Reynolds
COMD 3200
Professor Filimoehala
July 17, 2023
Summary & Reflection
Childs Ability in the Five Aspects of Language
Phonology
According to the textbook, the developmental phonological norms around three years of
age include mastering consonants, decreased clustering, and syllable deletion. Katie
demonstrated these norms by producing intelligible speech with complete consonants. Katie
should also be able to recognize the letters in her name around 60 months. Her parents reported
that she can recognize the letters in her name and has no concerns with her intelligibility. Katie
occasionally shows persisting phonological processes such as liquid gliding with words like
“yellow” producing “yewoh”.
Morphology
Children between the ages of three to four and a half years have developed morphological
skills like contractions, past tense, and irregular plural verbs. Katie demonstrated these skills
consistently by using contractions and irregular third-person verbs in her speech. For instance,
when talking about her puppy, she used "we played ball" to indicate that the activity had already
occurred. Additionally, Katie frequently contracted words such as "there's," "he's," and "there" in
her conversations.
Syntax
According to the textbook, appropriate syntactic development involves the ability to
narrate, use complex sentences, and combine 4-7 words in a sentence that makes sense. Katie
demonstrates appropriate development in this area as her sentences range between 4-10 words
and she uses complex sentence structures such as (subject-verb-object-adverb), (subject-verb-
compliment adverb), and (subject-auxiliary-verb-adverbs). Additionally, Katie frequently
narrates stories about her puppy, friends, and family. Her ability to narrate stories indicates that
she has a good understanding of sequencing and organization, which are important skills for both
language and cognitive development.
Semantics
Semantic milestones around three and a half years of age include relational terms,
overgeneralization, and reflexive pronouns. Katie was. Able to use relational terms to describe
family members. She was also able to describe an object as well as its uses, an example of this
was her ability to describe to me a ball and how she and her puppy played with it. Her parents
are actively helping Katie grow her semantic skills by reading to her as often as possible.
Animated reading helps expose Katie to new words and concepts, in the home setting she can
ask questions and point to familiar words. Katie's fast mapping abilities at this age allow her to
incorporate these words in her everyday speech.
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